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Oesting was announced as the winner among the ten finalists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Carney, Nitro Swimming<\/li>\n<li>Juya Cho, Waverunners<\/li>\n<li>Douglas Copper, Delaware Swim Team<\/li>\n<li>Adam Madarassy, Eagle Aquatics<\/li>\n<li>Mickey McNeil, Springfield Family YMCA<\/li>\n<li>Rick Mills, Magnolia Aquatic Club<\/li>\n<li>Marni O&#8217;Dell, Chino Hills Aquatics<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Megan Oesting, Eastern Iowa Swim Federation<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>David Stephens, Chicago Wolfpack Aquatic Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamunify.com\/Contact.jsp?team=iacraa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Megan Oesting<\/a> created the Eastern Iowa Swim Federation from a local community team in 2016.\u00a0 Since then she&#8217;s expanded to three sites, rewritten over two thirds of the previous team records, broken and reset over 40 Iowa Swimming records, posted over 25 Top 100 All Time National Age Group swims, half of which were in the top 10, including 1 National Age Group Record.<\/p>\n<p>She appears in USA Swimming&#8217;s Foundations of Coaching 101\/201 coaching education videos, and was featured in the February 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-world-presents-special-sets-getting-it-on-a-recipe-for-power-and-precision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swimming World Magazine<\/a> Special Sets. 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